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found: ChestofBooks.com online, viewed December 31, 2013(Thomas Guthrie; born at Brechin, Forfarshire, July 12, 1803; died at St. Leonards, Fifeshire, Feb. 24, 1873. Scottish clergyman; educated at Edinburgh; licensed to preach in 1825; studied medicine in Paris; on his return to Scotland was for a time employed in his father's banking house. In 1830 he was ordained pastor at Arbirlot near Arbroath, and in 1837 was transferred to the old Greyfriars church, Edinburgh.) {http://chestofbooks.com/reference/American-Cyclopaedia-11/Thomas-Guthrie.html}